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Mandatory Cyber Reporting Within 24 Hours: Sen. Warner Bill Sen. Warner's draft legislation, long expected, marks one of the first attempts to create a federal law mandating cyber incident reporting by some entities. Notably, the bill provides reporting entities with a degree of privacy and legal protection.

'More (JADC2) Gaps Than We Can Cover:' Lt. Gen. Crall "We're into the posture review, which is making its final rounds, which shows the gaps," said Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, J6 director.

Hicks Seeks To Unify Service Experiments With New 'Raider' Fund A new Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) will help fund the services' experiments, as long as they work together on joint concepts.

DoD Cloud Delays Hamper Missions: IT Leaders  "The more we wait, the more vulnerable we are," a leader told the survey takers.

Homeland OKs Cyber Nominees; Sen. Rick Scott Slaps Hold On Floor Vote Despite a unanimous committee voice vote, Sen. Scott announced a hold on the CISA director nominee, as well as all other DHS nominees, until President Biden visits the border with Mexico.

CYBERCOM Seeks 'Hunt Forward' Funding Boost "These robust information-sharing operations are just one part of our 'defend forward' strategy — where we see what our adversaries are doing and share that information with our partners in an effort to better bolster both our homeland defenses."

SecDef OKs Joint Warfighting Concept; Joint Requirements Due Soon A next step will be a series of "strategic directives" from the Joint Requirements Oversight Council that roll out "over the next few months," Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, Joint Staff J6 Deputy Director says.

NIST Releases New Language To Automate Cloud Security OSCAL's goal is to enable compliance and security assessments to keep pace in complex, fast-moving, ever-changing DevSecOps environments.

NATO To Invest In C2 For Strategic Pivot: China Rises As Alliance Threat "China is not mentioned with one single word in the current Strategic Concept," said NATO SecGen Jens Stoltenberg. "In one [way] or the other, I'm absolutely certain China will be reflected, and the challenges that China poses will be reflected" in the planned 2022 update.

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